Distributed Reflection Denial of Service (DrDoS) attacks – a method which has been used for more than a decade – have recently surged in popularity across a number of verticals. Prolexic, which provides DDoS protection services, recently...

Selecting a Web host is a tough decision that affects a website’s success and the environment. After all, the average server produces the same emissions as a 15 mpg SUV. Let’s look at eight environmentally conscious hosts.
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With a focus on quality, security and performance, ownCloud, the popular open-source alternative to Dropbox , released its ownCloud Server 5.0., which offers dozens of improvements, including a new design that makes the service more...

Open source identify and access management (or IAM for short) provider ForgeRock , one of the true pioneers of the space, has released a new version that aims to simplify identity and access management and further protect cloud, private...

Cloud monitoring service CopperEgg , and Hyve , a cloud hosting provider in the UK, are joining forces to deliver CopperEgg’s cloud performance visibility data directly to Hyve customers. Hyve has also joined CopperEgg’s...

Security concerns are on the rise among Web professionals. In fact, 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed in a May 2012 Intel study indicated they were “very” or “moderately” concerned when it comes to security...

So who’s the best cloud storage provider – Azure, Amazon, Google, HP, Rackspace? Enterprise storage provider Nasuni released results from its latest State of Cloud Storage Report and found that Microsoft Windows Azure ...

One of the most common methods that webmasters use to speed up their sites is to cache content (such as HTML pages, JavaScript, images or CSS) to reduce bandwidth and server load and speed up delivery. Unfortunately, there’s...

If you’re like me, you probably sat down with your family over the holiday break to relax and watch something on Netflix, only to find that its service was uncharacteristically down. Well, it seems that the company has corrected...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wanted to give its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) users a present, and what better way to celebrate the holidays than with family – a new instance family, that is. The cloud computing services provider...

Customers can now replicate Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) data across multiple data centers to assure its users that they can avoid disruptions from outages and serve content faster to multiple geographic locations, all while building...

The proliferation of digital media has made it easier for companies of every size to sell and market effectively. In fact, The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) shared data from private equity firm Veronhis Suhler Stevenson...

NetApp , the cloud storage provider, recently brought the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its customers. The company’s new solution, NetApp Private Storage for AWS, will use the AWS Direct Connect service to allow enterprise...

One of the world’s largest SSL certificate providers, GlobalSign , has partnered with Web performance and security company CloudFlare to significantly accelerate the load speeds and reduce the geographical delay of SSL-secured...

The open cloud company Rackspace ranks high among major players like Amazon and Windows in the cloud computing industry, which is an impressive feat. But the company isn’t about to rest on its laurels, as it just announced a...